The recent initiatives undertaken by the Egyptian authorities to amend the maximum duration of pretrial detention are futile if not coupled with measures to end the repressive practices of the …
Human Rights Organizations’ Report to the UN Universal Periodic Review
Egypt: Whitewashing Campaigns Fail to Conceal Human Rights Crisis
Ten Egyptian human rights organizations submitted a joint report on the human rights situation in Egypt, in preparation for the fourth session of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of Egypt’s …
Egypt: Rights organizations condemn targeting of ElMaraya for Culture and Arts and call for the protection of cultural institutions
The signatories of this statement condemn the Egyptian security forces’ raid on the headquarters of ElMaraya for Culture and Arts, where they searched it and seized some of its contents, …
Salon Ibn Rushd: Current Egyptian regime, based on military privilege and security blackmail, is rendering popular uprising inevitable
On Tuesday, 6 August 2024, the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) held a seminar as part of the monthly activities of Salon Ibn Rushd, titled ‘What are the …
Rights Groups Alarmed by Inhumane and Life-Threatening Conditions in Egypt’s Badr Prison
We, the undersigned organizations, are profoundly concerned by the recent and rapid deterioration of conditions inside Egypt’s Badr Rehabilitation and Correctional Center, according to testimonies from detainees’ families. We are …
Egypt: Sudanese Refugee Othman Hussein Yaqoub Mansour Must Be Immediately Released as Deportation Procedures Violate Egyptian and International Law
The undersigned organizations condemn the Egyptian authorities’ arrest and detention of Sudanese refugee and community leader Othman Hussein Yaqoub Mansour, Director of the African Vision School for Sudanese Education in …
After 7 October: Prospects in the Arab World
Over the two waves of the Arab Spring uprisings, which spanned nearly a decade, the Arab world was unable to find a common middle ground between the ruling elites and …
World Refugee Day: for the defence of human rights in the Euro-Mediterranean region, stop with European externalisation policies.
Today, on World Refugee Day, and following the results of the recent European elections, EuroMed Rights and its member organisations denounce the rapidly deteriorating conditions faced by people on the …
Joint NGO letter on the EU’s macro-financial assistance to Egypt and human rights
We, the undersigned Egyptian, regional and international human rights organisations, urge the European Commission and member states to uphold international and EU law to ensure that macro-financial assistance to Egypt …
Egypt: UN experts call on government to stop targeting and retaliating against human rights lawyers
The undersigned organizations support the letter by five UN Special Rapporteurs, published on 19 May 2024, addressing the Egyptian government in regards to the ongoing targeting of human rights lawyers …